Research Explains Lithium's Dual Anti-Manic/Anti-Depressive Effect
...ed levels areresponsible for mania. Nearly a half century ago, Australian psychiatrist John F. Cade discoveredlithium's mood-stabilizing effect. It has long been the drug of choice intreating bipolar disorder, which affects approximately 2.5 million Americans.Despite some side effects, lithium usually succe...National Science Foundation Awards Knowledge And Distributed Intelligence Grants
...ve economic and technological advances in the next century in fields including heavy industry, transportation, advanced materials design, and microelectronics. Artificial Implementation of Cerebro-Cerebellar Control of Reaching and Walking (LIS) Award Number: 9873478 Investigators: Jean-Jacques E. Sloti...Discovery: Experiments Confirm Novel Eye Pigment Controls Circadian Rhythm
...point. Also, breast cancer rates have climbed this century with some blaminglong exposure to electric lights for disrupting normal hormone patterns. Cancer experts want to know more about such rhythms because bothbeneficial and side effects of anti-cancer drugs can depend on what time of daythey are ...New Research Identifies Outcomes And Future Trends Based On Past Behaviors, Experience
...alid,predictions based on patient findings in this century can only be projected tothe next with caution " preventative and therapeutic measures now underdevelopment are likely to alter "illness course" in ways that cannot beanticipated."...Inhibiting Growth Of New Blood Vessels Reduces Heart Disease Plaque In Mice
... laboratory that has for the last third of the20th century established itself as the cradle of angiogenesis has given us onceagain important, challenging, and intriguing homework to carry us into the nextmillenium." Study co-authors are Eric Heller, M.S.; Moritz A. Konerding, M.D.;Evelyn Flynn, M.S.;...Rosenbaum discovers "hidden clue" on cardiogram
...electrocardiogram (ECG) since the turn of the 20th century to monitor heartbeats and identifycardiac disease. Until now, an important clue to predicting sudden cardiac arrest has remained hidden on the ECG. Physicians knew the clue was there, but were unable to confirm that it meant their patients were at hi...100 years of Freud's interpretation of dreams
A century ago Sigmund Freud, in the spirit of scientific inquiry, and afteryears of research as a neurologist, published The Interpretation of Dreams. Thebook began his exploration of the mind and his development of psychoanalysis. The book's publication also...Jefferson scientist sees drug profiles and tailor-made therapies as ways to beat HIV resistance
...rug is exactly what we did inthe early part of the century for bacterial infections such as tuberculosis,when people were developing resistance." But detailing the precise viral genetic make-up of each HIV-infectedindividual would cause treatment costs to rise significantly, he says. Thiswould be a p......an( weinreic@umich.edu ) will describe how 20th- century technology and experimentaltools transformed the discipline of musical acoustics. "Unlike the situation inother fields," he writes, "modern electronic methods not only made the physicsof musical instruments more accessible, they themselves invaded t...Improving burn diagnosis and insights into perfect pitch at acoustics press conference
...rate the absorption of sub-Saharan music into 20th century jazz....Wake Forest study finds both prevention and treatment needed to control heart disease
... more recently than in people born earlier in this century or at the end of the last century. Cholesterol reduction programs generally began about two decades ago, along with control of two other risk factors for heart disease - high blood pressure and smoking. Though heart disease remains the leading killer...New understanding of a key control mechanism in the brain
... Israel -- January 12, 2000 -- Despite more than a century of research on inhibitory neurons, very little is known on how this small population (10-20% of brain neurons) exerts its controlling effect on the brain. Pivotal for normal brain development, learning, and memory, it is not surprising that inhibitor......s to dissect wasn't really that strange for a 19th century medical school, Markel writes, quoting historian Thomas N. Bonner: "No school of this era was without its 'horror stories' of nightly raids on cemeteries, a provoked and outraged citizenry and violent attacks on the offending parties." Yet there are ...Expert calls for common sense, science in national response to medicinal herbs
...ited States straddled the latter years of the 19th century and the early years of the 20th up to passage of the Food and Drugs Act of 1906, he said. During their heyday, hundreds of herbal products were available, usually with high alcohol contents, and many of the advertising claims made for them were outra..."Radical" Discovery Advances Medicine and Plastics
...th skepticism, then dismissed it as a curiosity. A century later, Gomberg's breakthrough has led to profound ... plaque from ACS President Daryle Busch. Most 19th century chemists believed it was impossible to isolate an organic free radical - a molecule with a free elec...Gas prices too high? Scientists converge in Idaho to discuss future energy resources
Research findings ranging from energy in the 21st century to the potential anticancer properties of desert plants will be presented at the joint Northwest and Rocky Mountain Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientfific society, to be held in Idaho Falls, Idaho, June 15-...Living in the pharmaceutical century
20th century advances in drug technology The American Chemica...shed The Pharmaceutical Century, a history of 20th century medical advances and the technology that made them possible. The history is a product of the joint e...New grants program to help create healing environments in hospitals through art
...eting in Washington, DC, "The beginning of the new century presents a wonderful opportunity to explore ways in which we can connect the arts more deeply within the healthcare experience. We have the opportunity to expand what the NEA and others have already done, to replicate successful projects, and take o......n the number of Americans 65 and older in the past century (from 3.1 million in 1900 to over 34 million in 2000), many nurses have little or no education or training in gerontological nursing or chronic disease management, according to Jeanie Kayser Jones, RN, PhD, UCSF professor of physiological nursing and...